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Bruce Chatwin
Author profile
born
in Dronfield, The United Kingdom
May 13, 1940
died
January 18, 1989
gender
male
genre
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The Songlines
— published 1987 — 36 editions |
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In Patagonia
— published 1977 — 34 editions |
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On The Black Hill
— published 1982 — 17 editions |
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UTZ
— published 1988 — 21 editions |
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What Am I Doing Here?
— published 1988 — 22 editions |
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The Viceroy of Ouidah
— published 1980 — 14 editions |
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Anatomy of Restlessness: Selected Writings, 1969-1989
— published 1996 — 13 editions |
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Under The Sun: The Letters of Bruce Chatwin
by Bruce Chatwin, Nicholas Shakespeare , Elizabeth Chatwin — published 2010 — 6 editions |
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Patagonia Revisited
by Bruce Chatwin, Paul Theroux — published 1993 — 9 editions |
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Nowhere Is a Place: Travels in Patagonia
by Bruce Chatwin, Paul Theroux — 2 editions |
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“To lose a passport was the least of one’s worries. To lose a notebook was a catastrophe”
― Bruce Chatwin
― Bruce Chatwin
“As a general rule of biology, migratory species are less 'aggressive' than sedentary ones.
There is one obvious reason why this should be so. The migration itself, like the pilgrimage, is the hard journey: a 'leveller' on which the 'fit' survive and stragglers fall by the wayside.
The journey thus pre-empts the need for hierarchies and shows of dominance. The 'dictators' of the animal kingdom are those who live in an ambience of plenty. The anarchists, as always, are the 'gentlemen of the road'.”
― Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines
There is one obvious reason why this should be so. The migration itself, like the pilgrimage, is the hard journey: a 'leveller' on which the 'fit' survive and stragglers fall by the wayside.
The journey thus pre-empts the need for hierarchies and shows of dominance. The 'dictators' of the animal kingdom are those who live in an ambience of plenty. The anarchists, as always, are the 'gentlemen of the road'.”
― Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines
“I haven't got any special religion this morning. My God is the God of Walkers. If you walk hard enough, you probably don't need any other god.”
― Bruce Chatwin
― Bruce Chatwin
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